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Browsing by Subject "Climate Change"
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A Dynamic Decision Support System for Drought Resiliency and Climate Change
(2018)A water utility is tasked with perpetually supplying water to its customers, regardless of weather patterns and water supply. Simply put, there is no room for a shortage under any conditions. This can be most challenging ... -
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Ambient Observations of Aerosols, Novel Aerosol Structures, And Their Engineering Applications
(2014)The role of atmospheric aerosols remains a crucial issue in understanding and mitigating climate change in our world today. These particles influence the Earth by altering the Earth's delicate radiation balance, human ... -
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Blood Falls: A Novel
(2021)When Richard Freeley decided to give a presentation on the controversial subject of Antarctic sea ice expansion at a conference, he never expected a rival to humiliate him onstage and backlash to follow from every corner ... -
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Bridging the Minority Influence Gap: The Roles of Social Identification and Prototypicality
(2020)Continued partisan division in the U.S. prevents collaboration to solve important societal problems. However, adherents of different political parties are not homogenous; within every group exist minority viewpoints that ... -
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Climate Change and Groundwater Use Impacts to Groundwater and Spring Hydrology, Amargosa Desert, Nevada and Death Valley National Park, California
(2011)<bold>Abstract</bold>This project evaluates the affects of climate change, and to some degree groundwater pumping, on the magnitude and timing of changes in groundwater levels and spring discharge in the Amargosa Desert ... -
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Climate Change Induced Temperature Effects on the Thermal Biology of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Disease Dynamics of Chytridiomycosis
(2023)The study of disease ecology aims to understand the complex interactions among hosts, environments, and pathogens which result in a final disease outcome. An area of research that has been expanded within this field in ... -
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Ecohydrogeology of Owens Valley, California Spring Systems: Relationships between Geochemistry, Benthic Macroinvertebrates, and Microbial Communities
(2020)Integrating hydrogeology and aquatic ecology has intrigued ecologists and hydrologists. The challenges and importance of integrating these disciplines in groundwater-dependent ecosystems (e.g., springs) have been recognized ... -
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Effects of climate and water use on the ecology of mountain lakes and rivers in the Western United States
(2018)Climate change and over-use of natural resources impacts ecosystems worldwide. Understanding physical impacts from climate and natural resource use on biological processes at multiple scales of spatial and ecological ... -
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Impact of Potential Climate Change on Predicted Fluvial Transport of Mercury and Associated Bioaccumulation along the Carson River-Lahontan Reservoir
(2015)Historic mining practices have left the Carson River and Lahontan Reservoir (CRLR) system contaminated with high levels of mercury (Hg). Hg levels in Lahontan Reservoir planktivorous and predatory fish exceed federal human ... -
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Impacts of Reservoir Operations with Extreme Hydrologic and Climatic Conditions on Fish Sustainability below Shasta Lake
(2014)Reservoir managers on the Sacramento River are required by law to provide artificial cold water habitat downstream for endangered winter-run Chinook salmon. At Shasta Lake, a temperature control device was installed on ... -
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Investigating Atmospheric River Precipitation and Associated Snowpack Characteristics Under a Future Warmer Climate Scenario: Case Studies from the Eastern Sierra Nevada near Donner Summit, California
(2021)Atmospheric rivers (ARs) making landfall along the California coast have been warming since the 1980’s, resulting in changing AR precipitation and temperature characteristics in the Sierra Nevada of California, increasing ... -
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A Long-Term Micrometeorological and Hydrological Dataset Across an Elevation Gradient in Sagehen Creek, Sierra Nevada, California
(University of Nevada Reno, 2018)We compile and release ~55 years of daily and ~20 years of hourly Micrometeorological and hydrological data from Sagehen Creek a 28 km〖^2〗 watershed with observation sites spanning 1771 to 2670 m. A USGS gauging station ... -
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Maintaining soil carbon in semiarid meadows: inputs, retention, and resulting carbon stocks
(2022)Soil carbon (C) provides ecosystem services and can function as a C sink to mitigate climate change. Soil C is the result of inputs facilitated by autotrophs and respiratory losses caused by heterotrophic soil microbes. ... -
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Modeling water temperature dynamics at Shasta Lake, California under the drought conditions of 2015
(2017)Reservoir managers at Shasta Dam in northern California are mandated to provide cold discharge temperatures for endangered Chinook salmon in the downstream Sacramento River. Hydrodynamic modeling of reservoir temperatures ... -
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Quantifying the Pre-Archaic to Archaic Transition: A Study of Movement and Land-Use in the Old River Bed of Western Utah
(2014)Current models of prehistoric movement and land-use in the Old River Bed (ORB) of western Utah suggest that a wetland environment restricted Pre-archaic (pre-8,000 14C yr BP) occupants of the region to movement along a ... -
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Resurvey of Historical Pika Records in California
(2013)Anthropogenic climate change is emerging as a growing threat to biodiversityconservation, but the degree to which species have been, and will be, affected remains an open question. The American pika has become a model ...